A Furber, S Fanello, Y Roquelaure, F Lelevier, S Le Cardinal, D Penneau-Fontbonne, J C Renier
{"title":"[Lower back pain in physicians. Epidemiological aspect and risk factors].","authors":"A Furber, S Fanello, Y Roquelaure, F Lelevier, S Le Cardinal, D Penneau-Fontbonne, J C Renier","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study was to evaluate as accurately as possible, in a well-defined population subgroup, the prevalence and incidence of lower back pain, the impact of this symptom on professional activities and personal life, and the influence of risk factors. Members of the medical profession were considered particularly apt to accurately and reliably report their personal experience with lower back pain and were therefore selected for this survey. Five hundred 93-item questionnaires were sent to a representative sample of physicians in the Maine-et-Loire district, France. Response rate was 93%. Prevalence of lower back pain at the time of the survey was 32% and cumulative prevalence was 62%. Static spinal disorders (exaggerated lordosis, scoliosis, unequal length of lower limbs) and injury to the spine were found to be risk factors. Occupation-related stresses to the spine reported as being responsible for lower back pain included bending forward for prolonged periods, lifting weights, driving, and prolonged sitting.</p>","PeriodicalId":76478,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme et des maladies osteo-articulaires","volume":"59 12","pages":"777-83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12483536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B Taillan, G Garnier, E Ferrari, J G Fuzibet, J F Quaranta, N Gratecos, P Dujardin
{"title":"[Rheumatic diseases associated with HIV infection].","authors":"B Taillan, G Garnier, E Ferrari, J G Fuzibet, J F Quaranta, N Gratecos, P Dujardin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76478,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme et des maladies osteo-articulaires","volume":"59 12","pages":"842"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12483476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R Trèves, G Faessel, M H Bitterman, C Bonnet, M Arnaud, P Bertin, R Desproges-Gotteron
{"title":"[Cost of sciatica].","authors":"R Trèves, G Faessel, M H Bitterman, C Bonnet, M Arnaud, P Bertin, R Desproges-Gotteron","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76478,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme et des maladies osteo-articulaires","volume":"59 12","pages":"839-41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12483474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Mijiyawa, K Koumouvi, A Bellow, K N'Dakena, P Doury
{"title":"[Degenerative spinal disease in an outpatient clinic in Lomé (Togo)].","authors":"M Mijiyawa, K Koumouvi, A Bellow, K N'Dakena, P Doury","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A survey was conducted to determine the frequency and semiological characteristics of degenerative spinal disease in patients attending a hospital rheumatology outpatient clinic in Lomé, Togo. Seven hundred and one of the 1,821 patients seen over a two-year period had degenerative spinal disease. Spinal disease included lower back pain (n = 385), lumbar and radicular pain suggestive of disk protrusion (n = 137), lumbar and radicular pain with claudication suggestive of stenosis of the spinal canal (n = 42), dorsal pain (n = 24), cervical pain (n = 68) and cervical and brachial pain (n = 45). Clinical patterns were similar to those seen in Western countries. However, lumbar and radicular pain with claudication suggestive of stenosis of the spinal canal occurred at a younger age and mainly affected females. These data are in contrast with previous studies suggesting that lumbar and radicular pain due to disk protrusion and stenosis of the spinal canal are uncommon in Black Africa.</p>","PeriodicalId":76478,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme et des maladies osteo-articulaires","volume":"59 12","pages":"797-800"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12483542","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J L Le Quintrec, P Chazerain, J P Campagne, I Cerf, J M Ziza
{"title":"[Continuous Hallopeau acrodermatitis with osteolysis preceding common psoriasis with oligo-arthritis by 35 years].","authors":"J L Le Quintrec, P Chazerain, J P Campagne, I Cerf, J M Ziza","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76478,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme et des maladies osteo-articulaires","volume":"59 12","pages":"844-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12483478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Immunosuppressive therapy of secondary amyloidosis associated with rheumatoid arthritis or Still's disease].","authors":"P Blanche, C J Menkès","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ten cases of renal amyloidosis associated with rheumatoid arthritis (n = 9) or Still's disease (n = 1) were studied retrospectively. One patient had end-stage renal failure at first presentation, whereas the nine others had nephrotic syndrome without renal failure as the initial manifestation of amyloidosis. In the three untreated patients, renal function deteriorated steadily and dialysis was rapidly necessary. In contrast, among the six patients given chemotherapy, four had normal renal function under therapy. These favorable therapeutic results are analyzed and compared with previously published data on the treatment of secondary amyloidosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":76478,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme et des maladies osteo-articulaires","volume":"59 12","pages":"784-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12483540","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A few reflexion themes on the method in therapeutic evaluation].","authors":"G Bouvenot","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76478,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme et des maladies osteo-articulaires","volume":"59 11","pages":"703-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12480370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J L L'Hirondel, X Troussard, M Macro, F Courtheoux, G Guaydier-Souquières, J C Mandard, G Loyau
{"title":"[Polyarthritis revealing hairy cell leukemia].","authors":"J L L'Hirondel, X Troussard, M Macro, F Courtheoux, G Guaydier-Souquières, J C Mandard, G Loyau","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A female patient simultaneously developed hematologic evidence of hairy cell leukemia and marked but short-lived inflammatory involvement of a number of joints. Both these groups of symptoms resolved simultaneously and rapidly under alpha-2 interferon therapy. This course suggests that the arthritis was a rheumatologic manifestation of the hematologic disease. The concomitant occurrence in this patient of arthritis, splenomegaly and leukopenia was suggestive of Felty syndrome: these two conditions need to be differentiated.</p>","PeriodicalId":76478,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme et des maladies osteo-articulaires","volume":"59 11","pages":"749-53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12480967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Arthritis and polyenthesitis after viral pleuro-pneumopathy due to Coxsackie virus].","authors":"K Shichikawa, Y Takenaka, H Morita","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A sixty-one year-old male developed subacute polyenthesitis one month after the onset on pleuropulmonary disease. This last manifestation resolved completely six months later, whereas the enthesopathy ran a subacute course, improving over time. Three years after onset, the patient had monoarthritis of the left elbow and tendinitis of both Achilles tendons. During the course of the disease, neutralizing antibodies against Coxsackie virus A9 rose significantly then returned to normal when clinical manifestations improved. This finding suggests that viral infections may cause enthesopathy.</p>","PeriodicalId":76478,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme et des maladies osteo-articulaires","volume":"59 11","pages":"757-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12480969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E Mancel, A Janin, B Duquesnoy, B Noachovitch-Rigaut, P Y Hatron, G Constantinides
{"title":"[Gold salt deposits in the conjunctiva in rheumatoid arthritis after gold therapy. A systematic study of 15 biopsies].","authors":"E Mancel, A Janin, B Duquesnoy, B Noachovitch-Rigaut, P Y Hatron, G Constantinides","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ocular abnormalities have long been recognized as a potential adverse effect of gold therapy in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Clinical symptoms and ocular tissue lesions possibly related to use of gold therapy were routinely evaluated in eleven patients. There were few clinical manifestations: only one patient had typical accumulation of gold in the anterior crystalloid. In contrast, routine ultrastructural and microprobe studies of conjunctival biopsy specimens disclosed accumulation of gold salts in every case. Gold was visible as aurosomes in the conjunctival macrophages. Aurosomes were seen in patients treated for as little as one month, occurred even with low doses (0.3 g), and were still visible after several years. Duration of accumulation can be roughly estimated on the basis of the morphologic appearance of aurosomes which are lamellar after a few weeks of gold therapy and rod-shaped beyond one month.</p>","PeriodicalId":76478,"journal":{"name":"Revue du rhumatisme et des maladies osteo-articulaires","volume":"59 11","pages":"715-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12536307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}